



For the first step in e-commerce
Open-source and Free
Shopping Cart Software
Thousands of companies of all sizes, from startups to Enterprise, use CS‑Cart software for running an online store. CS-Cart now comes in a free edition: it’s a free shopping cart, which stays professional, flexible, and feature-rich.
Build a free website with shopping cart based on the professional open source eCommerce platform that has been successfully powering online businesses for 17 years.

Versatile platform
For any customer need
Easy development from a basic store to an international marketplace
Become an e-commerce professional
Start with basic free online stores attract new customers with bigger projects, and grow your company. Other free shopping carts won’t give that progress and development opportunities.
1. Improve your skills
Help your customers grow and develop your own skills. Our open source shopping cart has a clean and transparent code that allows for great flexibility, customizations, and growth.
2. Marketplaces and Enterprise solutions
Get more powerfull customers and complex projects. Our open source shopping cart software offers unbeatable flexibility in terms of customization. With CS-Cart, you offer store owners an online business that brings them money, allows them to grow, and progress. CS-Cart Free shopping cart software fits any size of a project.
3. Additional income
Get passive income—sell add-ons on theMarketplace. To sell online successfully, an online store owner should constantly think about how to improve the shopping cart platform so that it offers buyers a great eCommerce experience. To improve a free online store, the owners use ready add-ons that add new features without coding. So you can benefit from both—developing an online store on an open source eCommerce platform, and creating your own add-ons to sell them on the CS-Cart Marketplace.

Become part of a professional community
Free course for developers
We will tell you the most important things about the architecture and development features for CS-Cart! Write your first CS-Cart add-on in a week of studying!
Everything for fast development
Most powerful platform
Easy-to-use platform for fast start and growth of an online store
Free shopping carts usually don’t have much functionality out of the box. It’s not about CS-Cart Free. CS-Cart Free is a free shopping cart that comes with over 500 features and store owners can add even more functionality with ready add-ons from our Marketplace.
Proven over the years commercial platform code. All functionality is tested, the code passes code review. CS-Cart Free shopping cart is based on a popular technology stack that includes PHP, Smarty and other libraries. And the platform’s code is clear and easy to understand. Not to mention that it's completely secure.
The documentation is constantly updated. Video tutorials and courses for developers are available as well. You can be 100% sure that you will have all the education you need to start developing an online store on our free shopping cart software.
Why CS-Cart?
A feature-first approach
to e‑commerce
CS-Cart vs. Prestashop
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Scalability
CS-Cart will help your business to grow. In your free online store, you can add storefronts, upgrade single-store to marketplace, sell hundreds of thousands of goods and serve a large number of site visitors to the site. -
Support
Cs-Cart have customer care service: from one-time assistance to ongoing service. Well established community will help you with advice. -
Documentation
Documentation fully covers topics for both developers and store administrators. Lots of video tutorials. Developer courses. A large community is always ready to help.
CS-Cart vs. OpenCart
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SEO
CS-Cart developers are constantly increasing the operation speed, improving the checkout usability, and working on search engine optimization. -
Continuous Improvement
CS-Cart does not stand still, we are constantly improving the speed of work, the convenience of placing orders for customers, and optimization for search engines. -
System architecture
The architecture allows you to write add-ons for the platform without program interaction with other add-ons.
CS-Cart vs. WooCommerce
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Specialization
CS-Cart platform was originally developed for e-commerce. We are experts and are ready to share our expertise with you. -
Convenience
We focus on making it convenient for both customers and administrators to use the store. A large number of integrations will allow you to run your business comfortably, and will make it easy for your visitors to make purchases. -
Blog
An integrated blogging platform with the ability to sell directly from posts.
E-commerce professionals
Huge experience
years in e-commerce
countries people choose CS-Cart
live stores on CS-Cart
Be part of a community full of opportunity

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Finish projects before deadline
Make project on CS-Cart flash and easy
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Download
CS-Cart Free.
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Install CS-Cart using
the step-by-step wizard.
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Set up basic settings and customize the look, get additional add-ons from our marketplace
FAQ
To build a free website with a shopping cart, you need free shopping cart software in the first place. If you are an online store developer, you can use the CS-Cart open source eCommerce platform for your clients’ projects. If you sell online, you need to hire a developer who will build a free online store for you.
Again, you can use free eCommerce shopping carts to create simple online stores. There are plenty of such platforms available but many of them unfortunately don’t offer enough flexibility, customizability, and functionality. CS-Cart Free is an open source shopping cart that has it all.
To sell online without a website, use a simple landing page. You can create it on any landing page builder—there are plenty of them available, free and paid. A landing page is suitable for selling one or several products online. It is not suitable for selling hundreds and thousands of products like an online store.
It is not really possible to do a business online without investments. You need to buy products to keep them in-stock, you need money on marketing and advertising. But there are things you can greatly save money on. Free e-commerce shopping carts are one of the things that help you save your budget. For example, CS-Cart is a free shopping cart software that supports unlimited products, shipping methods, and other must-have eCommerce features. And it’s totally free.
Well, you have two cheap options to sell online: sell on marketplaces or build your own online store on a free shopping cart. The latter requires more effort but your own online store means freedom, flexibility, and more business opportunities.
Unlike the paid version, CS-Cart Free doesn’t have some features for larger stores. That includes privileges and user groups for administrators, multiple storefronts, warehouses, CDN support, and back-end sign-in via Google. But other than that, there are no restrictions! Neither on the number of products and categories, nor on the time of use. You won’t even be prompted to move to the paid version. You’ll get a modern fully-functional online store for free.
We have a rich amount of documentation. We have identified the most necessary at the start and collected it in one section. These articles will help you quickly master CS-Cart development.
Lots of documentation and videos. These few articles will help you quickly set up a CS-Cart store and start selling.
Our community helps with developing and setting up CS-Cart in our forum or our Telegram chat. Also, you can always seek professional help from our support team.
There are no special requirements for hosting, you can read about the requirements in the documentation. Our partners are also ready to provide hosting for any projects. If you use your own server, use our our Ansible playbooks.
We guarantee free fixes for bugs in the CS-Cart source code (in case the bug can be reproduced in a clean installation). Any other services of our technical support are available only on a paid basis.
Yes, after purchasing a license, there is no need to perform a complete reinstallation of CS-Cart. Our technical support specialists will help you with the process of upgrading your installation to CS-Cart Standard. This service is completely free of charge and is available upon request in our Help Desk system.
Yes, we offer a free basic course for developers who are interested in CS-Cart Free. It contains information about architecture and most of the features of CS-Cart. It will make it easier for you to understand how CS-Cart works. You can find out more about the course by following this link